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    <h2>Kungkhies FAQ</h2>
    <h3>General</h3>
    <ol>
        <li><a href="#whatis">What is a kungkhie?</a></li>
        <li><a href="#subjects">For which subjects can kungkhies be used?</a></li>
        <li><a href="#levels">For which academic levels are kungkhies suitable?</a></li>
        <li><a href="#wiscrowd">What is the wisdom of crowds and how do kungkhies use this?</a></li>
        <li><a href="#create">How do I create a kungkhie?</a></li>
        <li><a href="#teach">How do I use kungkhies to teach?</a></li>
        <li><a href="#learn">How do I use kungkhies to learn?</a></li>
        <li><a href="#kbase">What is kungkhie-base?</a></li>
        <li><a href="#template">What is a kungkhie template?</a></li>
        <li><a href="#blank">What is a blank kungkhie?</a></li>
        <li><a href="#pref">What is a personal preference kungkhie?</a></li>
        <li><a href="#popmax">What is a popmax kungkhie?</a></li>
        <li><a href="#reco">What is a recommended kungkhie?</a></li>
        
    <h3>Publishing kungkhies</h3>
    <li><a href="#publish">What happens when I submit a kungkhie?</a></li>
    
    <h3>The kungkhie recommender system</h3>
    
    <h3>The platform</h3>
    <li><a href="#tech">What is the technology behind the kungkhies.com platform?</a></li>
    <li><a href="#beta">Why is the platform in a beta state?</a></li>
    
    <h3>The educational model</h3>
    
    <h3>About kungkhies.com</h3>
    <li><a href="#os">Is kungkhies an open source project?</a></li>
    
    </ol>
    
    <h2>Answers</h2>
    
    <ol>
        <li><h3><a name="whatis">What is a kungkhie?</a></h3>
            <p>A kungkhie can be described on many different levels, but the simplest way to look at a kungkhie is as an educational route map that takes a learner through a learning process by carrying out a sequence of activities. One thing that makes kungkhies different is that the determination of the best activities to use is a social process.</p>
            <p>To learn more please see <a href="<s:url value="/whatis" />">What is a kungkhie?</a>.</p>
        </li>
        <li><h3><a name="subjects">For which subjects can kungkhies be used?</a></h3>
            <p>Kungkhies can be used to teach just about any topic, academic or non-academic, for which there are web-based activities available.</p>
            <p>Science, mathematics, humanities, games, hobbies, pastimes... </p>      
        </li>
        <li><h3><a name="levels">For which academic levels are kungkhies suitable?</a></h3>
            <p>Kungkhies will be suitable for a wide range of ages and academic levels, from middle primary years to postgraduate.</p>
        </li>
        <li><h3><a name="wiscrowd">What is the wisdom of crowds and how do kungkhies use this?</a></h3>
            <p>The wisdom of crowds refers to the ability of large numbers of people to come up with collective decisions that can better those made by experts.  In the case of kungkhies.com one has many independent learners making decisions about the best activities to use in a kungkhie. The kungkhie platform pools all this information to make a collective decsion.</p>
            <p>There is also the factor of local knowledge.  With large numbers of people involved in searching for good activities, someone somewhere might just have the bingo activity that would not be found without the crowd.</p>
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        <li><h3><a name="create">How do I create a kungkhie?</a></h3>
            <p>There are several ways to create a kungkhie.</p>
            <p>The simplest is to plan out a sequence of activities then download the suitable template from the kungkhies site.  This is in the form of an XML file.  Activities and other required data can then be added using the Kungkhie Client Desktop Edition which can then be used to publish the blank kungkhie (no activities) to kungkhie-base.</p>
            <p>Alternatively, the kungkhie XML file can be edited using any text editor and then uploaded to kungkhie-base using the form on the kungkhies web site.</p>
         </li>
        <li><h3><a name="teach">How do I use kungkhies to teach?</a></h3>
            <p>Here are three ways that kungkhies can be used in teaching.</p>
            <p>Firstly, set students the task of creating a kungkhie to teach a particular topic.</p>
            <p>Secondly, create and publish a kungkhie for students to use.</p>
            <p>Thirdly, use the existing kungkhie-base to teach.</p>
           
        </li>
        <li><h3><a name="learn">How do I use kungkhies to learn?</a></h3>
            <p>The answer to this question is very similar to that for how to use kungkhies to teach.</p>
            <p>Here are some ways you can use kungkhies to learn a topic.</p>
            <p>Try to create a kungkhie about the topic yourself.  One of the best ways to learn is to teach.</p>
            <p>If you feel that you do not have the confidence or the time to create a kungkhie then </p>
            
        </li>
        <li><h3><a name="kbase">What is kungkhie-base?</a></h3>
            <p>Kungkhie-base is a shorthand term that refers to all the kungkhies published to the kungkhies database.</p>
            
        </li>
        <li><h3><a name="template">What is a kungkhie template?</a></h3>
            <p>A kungkhie template has a specified structure in terms of nodes (knowledge states and activities) but no given topic, learning outcomes or activities have been assigned.</p>
            
        </li>
        <li><h3><a name="blank">What is a blank kungkhie?</a></h3>
            <p>A blank kungkhie is one that has a given template and a set of learning outcomes but has no assigned learning activities.  Students can download a blank kungkhie on a particular topic, populate it with their preferred activities then publish to kungkhie-base..</p>
            
        </li>
        <li><h3><a name="pref">What is a personal preference kungkhie?</a></h3>
            <p></p></li>
        <li><h3><a name="popmax">What is a popmax kungkhie?</a></h3>
            <p>A popmax kungkhie is one populated with activities that have most frequenty submitted to kungkhie-base.</p>   
        </li>
        <li><h3><a name="reco">What is a recommended kungkhie?</a></h3>
            <p>A recommended kungkhie is one that is populated by activities that have been submitted by users with similar preferences to the requestor.</p>
        </li>
        <li><h3><a name="publish">What happens when I submit a kungkhie?</a></h3>
            <p>After upload, the kungkhie XML or JSON file is placed in a queue.  You will receive an HTTP response on the success or otherwise of the upload and en-queue processes.</p>
            <p>The uploads are then processed one-by-one from the bottom of the queue.  They are tested for validity against the kungkhie schema and for the validitiy of parameters such as the kungkhie identifiers.  If there are no errors, each kungkhie will be published in kungkhie-base and becomes visible to user searches.  It also becomes accessible to the popmax and Kungkhommender agents.</p>
            <p>In order to discover the success or otherwise of the publish process a message will be left in your own personal data area (your 'k-space').  If there has been an error then the message will attempt to explain where the error occurred.  You can then fix the error and re-submit the kungkhie.
        </li>
        <h2>The platform</h2>
        <li><h3><a name="tech">What is the technology behind the kungkhies.com platform?</a></h3>
            <p>The kungkhies platform is written in Java 6 using Spring 3.1 and Tiles 2.2.2.
            <p>The server is Tomcat 6.0.35.</p>
            The Kungkhie Client Desktop Edition is built on the NetBeans Platform 7.0.1 using the Visual Library 2.0 module.
        </li>
        <li><h3><a name="beta">Why is the platform in a beta state?</a></h3>
            <p>The platform has been tested thoroughly and we are confident that it is functioning correctly.  However, this is a major enterprise with a lot of user-facing functionality.  Beta testing in the heat of a live installation is bound to throw up some issues, of usability at the very least.  Hence we would like to obtain the feedback of users before removing the beta tag.   </p>
        </li>
        
        <h2>About kungkhies</h2>
        <li><h3><a name="os">Is kungkhies an open source project?</a></h3>
            <p>Yes.</p>
        </li>
        
       
    </ol>
